- Jul 26, 2008
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This from a fixie ignoramous...
I was cruising a shop a day or two ago and noticed a couple fixies. (Or at least ones with a free wheel on them.)
The bikes I saw both had dropouts facing to the rear (with the associated adjusters). This, when I had thought that a good fixie dropout design might be straight down--so that you could easily remove the wheel to flip it or to repair a flat.
I can easily see the advantage/value of the rear-facing dropout for chain tensioning, but it also looks like a total hassle any time you'd want to take the wheel off--e.g., for flipping it, or flats...
What am I missing here?
I was cruising a shop a day or two ago and noticed a couple fixies. (Or at least ones with a free wheel on them.)
The bikes I saw both had dropouts facing to the rear (with the associated adjusters). This, when I had thought that a good fixie dropout design might be straight down--so that you could easily remove the wheel to flip it or to repair a flat.
I can easily see the advantage/value of the rear-facing dropout for chain tensioning, but it also looks like a total hassle any time you'd want to take the wheel off--e.g., for flipping it, or flats...
What am I missing here?